HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

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lagoon I'd read yr rewrite of GOT books if you are so inclined fyi

brevity is source of wit and really just easier for everyone

cool ill get to work on that shd be done in like 40 years

Not very efficient. : \

yet he'll still beat martin to the end

there is no limit to GRRM's ability to just start thinking about food in the middle of writing something

― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:28 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its like the adrenaline high point of the entire fucking series and he cant help but describe a fucking feast

― max, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 6:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im dying with laughter over here

it's so true

"and with cries of anguish she screamed as her brother took sword blow after sword blow, crimson rivers of blood flowing down the palace steps, while onlookers feasted on glistening slabs of suckling pig freshly roasted with young crabapples, brandywine filling their ornate goblets to wash the juices that sheened their hungry mouths...."

Good lord how did you people slog through that

well that one's parody unless my eyes were deeply glazed over by the last leg

of chicken, its juices trickling down walder frey's chin as he smiled at rob stark kneeling, rivers of blood pouring from his wounds and pooling about the suckling pig that had been swept off a nearby table by a dying north bannerman, apple still firmly within its teeth.

https://i.imgur.com/q1GkkoM.png

the kinda comical say whaaaat look tyrion had on his face at the end (like he'd never seen a pizza that large or something)

Not caught up on the thread yet but need to highlight this. Lmao

those bastard name sound like mls team names to me.

― ryan, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:02 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark

Hahaha nailed it

I've heard that his other books are written in a more restrained manner. Quite a few fans of things like Fevre Dream, Sand Kings and Armageddon Rag apparently don't like the Ice And Fire series.
I bought Fevre Dream a few months before Game Of Thrones tv show started and I still haven't read it but I'm still looking forward to it.

its like the adrenaline high point of the entire fucking series and he cant help but describe a fucking feast

― max, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 6:28 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not just that but i love how imagining tyrion's vomit he can't help himself from thinking 'ooh, and there'd be bits of bacon in it! and applecakes! and fiery dornish peppers!', it's like he's writing that sentence specifically to appeal to a dog.

― balls, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 6:40 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Probably for the spoiler thread but yeah like 50% of the books are descriptions of food and 49.9% descriptions of clothing

Did you guys know that there were 77 dishes served at Joffrey's wedding and he describes every single fucking one of them

I wanna know who the teenage nihilist is they have on the writing crew

Arya's "nothing" speech last ep and the Beetle Speech this ep

Every time they need some kind of pontification on the nihlism of existence they ring up this dude

i loved arya's nothing speech. the arya-hound stuff is far and away the best subplot this season, and aside from charles dance and michael mcelhatton theyre the best regulars

does that include littlefinger's ladder monologue from last season too

Yeah my love for teenage nihilism is clear as I've demonstrated on the True Detective thread

But the tone of those monologues always feels very distinct from the rest of the show, maybe I just have an acute nihilism detector

I am feeling the Sansa & Littlefinger subplot as well - Arya and the Hound is an amazing double-act but it's mostly just been them walking around and occasionally killing some people.

Really hope all these characters come together properly at the Vale though. Brienne & Podrick need to meet Arya & The Hound, it can only lead to deeply suspicious wagon-circling lols.

FWIW I found the flayed ironborn more gross than Oberyn

Also re: infection talk upthread, don't forget that the Hound is walking pusbag right now

omg the beetle speech was so not nihilistic

Seemed that way to me

You wanna know why this guy is killing all these beetles

But then a horse kicks him in the head

Life is pointless like that sometimes

Or sometimes the world sends something along to kill murderous idiots

i feel like it was somewhat about the limits of our ability to understand, like tyrion is very smart but he still cant figure it out the bug crushers deal, tho he can perceive that there is a reason, but mostly i think it was about his own humanity and sensitivity rubbing up against the uncaring calcified culture all around him, like everyone around him was quite nihilistic while he had some sort of deeper understanding, and that contrast was painful, but i dont think that qualifies as a endorsement of nihilism being true, like at the end youre waiting to see if he crushes the bug or lets it go, and he lets it go and doesnt even seem like he was considering crushing it

Yeah I guess Tyrion left out the detail about the horse getting his eyes popped out

That's a good read on Tyrion xp

also like tyrion is the bug constantly being crushed - his trying to understand the bug crusher is proxy for trying to understand tywin + cersei + everyone cruel

otm

also the thing Tyrion released (pillbug, roly poly, they go by many names) is not only not a beetle but not even an insect. They are tiny crustaceans. FYI.

Arya's "nothing" comment was pretty far from being a speech. She did a good job with the read- it didn't come off like an atheist truth bomb kind of thing, she made it seem like something the character was realizing as she said it. It didn't linger too long and it didn't sound to me like it was trying to be so #profound #jadensmith

it was the right "bug" for the scene though cause that's exactly what I would expect to see crawling in a dungeon.

xp totally Jaden Smith levels. It's not a super-deep show, idk why people are trying to read more into these clunky "meaningful" bits of dialogue when most of the meaning in the show is in what people do rather than what they say.

I guess it just didn't bother me so much.

was fine w/ tyrion's beetlemania, felt one part deep thoughts, one part explaining tyrion's curiosity and tying it to his general humanity, one part this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WC_Dyo6Fo

arya and the hound feels way more fleshed out than the little bit that was in the book, for the better. that is one thing the show has been able to do more than or better than the books, develop these relationships (some of which aren't even in the book - eg tywin and arya). the same thing happened w/ ygritte and jon snow, and that was w/ the handicap of kit harrington. also rmde at this show and tna but if it takes the form of missandei bathing every week i'll learn to deal. she fine.

Maybe it's because her character in the book is 11 but Missandei was the one female character on the show who wasn't going to get her kit off.

the one character I didn't think was going to etc.

apparently the beetle speech was a dig at Orson Scott Card? I guess he managed to diss the show in between all his other insane rants

My brother was considering giving up the books, he is at Feast and he heard others saying Dance was as big a slog as where he is at. He felt characters are generally just as good or better (Varys, Margaery and some others) on the tv show.
I thought that maybe the epic fantasy elements would be better in the books (something live action screen versions almost never do well) but he says they aren't in much focus.

Dance is much less of a slog than Feast IMO.

apparently the beetle speech was a dig at Orson Scott Card? I guess he managed to diss the show in between all his other insane rants

― Number None, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 12:59 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha good

Did Card make a book about beetles or something, I don't read that loser.

the bad guys in enders game were bugs

and I'm pretty sure all he writes these days is pointless spins on that series

Orson Scott Card is the idiot cousin

no shit

Well, Orson Lannister in the show.

there's been some good stuff w/ the hound&arya but they've got a lot of pride between them. brienne&podrick are great & it feels like they might actually admit they enjoy each other's company. the wandering is best when it increases the scope, reminding you how despite all the Everyone Hates The Lannisters sitcom actually nothing much is going on for most ppl & we check in on hot pie & all he's been caring about is gravy